Bad news: I had my outworld all decorated with grout and sticks and moss and rocks and everything, and then I run into my room and somehow managed to throw my entire ant setup across the room! So all the grout in my outworld broke and fell out...the connection between the nest and the outworld came out, and ants poured everywhere.
Yay.
I grabbed the cotton, stuffed the openings closed and began to clean up the ants on my carpet and stick them in the outworld. It turned out alright, nothing important was broken, and thanks to the solid 3d printing of the hybrid, it was fine. I just have a plain looking outworld and some really angry ants now.

Proverbs 6:6-8

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

My ants colony is basically the same size it was the last time I posted. They have stayed the perfect size to fit in my small lasius hybrid. This is mainly because I have been limiting their protein (part intentionally, part.... forgetting...) But it turns out that they are staying the right size. I was worried that I would not be able to control their growth, but i seem to be able to do so quite easily. No elates this year. This is probably because they don't have enough protein to create them, but they seem healthy and not underfed.

Proverbs 6:6-8

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.